You've Come A Long Way, Weekly
By Tweaklab on April 1, 2018 11:44 pm
So when I found out this week marked the 20th anniversary of the Fatboy Slim album "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" I knew I had to take inspiration from that era for this week's beat.
Norman Cook was my idol when I started learning to make beats way back in the early 2000s. All these years later and I feel like I've got a general grasp on how he made those wicked big beats back in the day. This tune was only started 12 hours ago and here in Australia that means I've been asleep for at least half of them lol.
I recorded the guitar myself, I duplicated the guitar track and applied filters to achieve the bassline, a trick I believe was used back in the days of Big Beat to achieve the bassline from a sampled loop.
Lots of 303 modulation as it should be. It's probably got a bit more of a Chemical Brothers vibe on that note, but overall I feel I achieved what I set out to do in the little time I had this week!
The drum loops came from Norman Cook's very own Reason Refill "Skip To My Loops" which was one of the first if not THE first sample pack I ever grabbed back in 2003.
Oh and check out that sub bass boom drop I crafted from a flat note!
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oh and thanks for the huge inflation of my noggin, can't wait to have another crack at this style in 2018.